Getting Your Kid Into Digital Cameras

Advantages: Features Like Any Regular Digital Camera
Disadvantages: 16 MB Internal Memory and No Zoom Capabilities

...No digital camera review on CIAO would be complete without a few entries about cameras designed for kids. After all, kids are almost universally enthusiastic about taking pictures. And parents with a love of photography often pass down their passion to their children. But digital cameras are not always kid-friendly, due to fragile construction, price, or complicated menus and buttons. The newest trend in children's electronics is a group of digital cameras made especially for small children. These cameras are easy to hold, come in bright colors that kids love, and have many of the same features as grown-up digital cameras. Kids love them. The VTech KidiZoom Digital Camera is one of the top digital cameras for kids. This camera was made with fun in mind. Kids like the KidiZoom's large LCD screen and the onboard photo editing options...

bennyong 21.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of VTech Kidizoom Camera Pink

Touch Screen Fun

Advantages: Original, nice looking, sturdy
Disadvantages: Limited range of games

...-Overview- The Nintendo DS Lite is the 2nd version of the new handheld games console from Nintendo. This console is not just a fancy Gameboy, however. It offers many differences to other handhelds. -Games- The range of games is fairly limited to what I call 'kiddie' games - not necessarily just for the kids, but you'll be hard-pressed to find a hardcore shoot-em-up on here. The games are mostly either platform (Super Mario, Princess Peach), puzzler (Dr. K's Brain Training) or 'specific' (Trauma Center, Ace Attorney). There also a few others like Nintendogs and The Sims, although I haven't tried any like that yet. The games are tiny 'cartridges', like mini versions of the Gameboy games, or extra-mini versions of the old Super Nintendo console, if you like :) -Controls- The obvious appeal of this console comes from the touch...

kaledrina 30.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Nintendo DS Lite

Touch Magic

Advantages: Great sound quality, great applications
Disadvantages: Battery Life, Fingerprints, could be better

...at the bottom, these allows you to look through your playlists, artists, songs, albums or more. Just like you usually would get. The touch technology is brilliant when you play music, the pause, play, back, forward buttons are all accessible just by one touch of the finger. You control the volume not only at the side of the IPod but also on the screen by scrolling it across. The great addition that the second generation provides is the speakers installed within the IPod, they are not fantastic, but they do allow you to play your music out loud without using an IPod dock or anything like that. Videos I gave blood again today, and usually I have quite a hard time. Instead of 10 minutes it takes about 30-45 minutes to get blood out of me, so I took my IPod and lay down and turned on an episode of Bones. I so far only have 2 videos...

DixieChick10 28.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Apple iPod touch 8 GB

A "Touch" of Class

Advantages: Widescreen, Wi-Fi, Easy to Use
Disadvantages: Outer Shell Shows Dirt, Slightly Pricey, Speaker Volume Is Low

...When purchasing my iPod Touch 32Gb, I must admit that I did have my doubts over the hefty price tag. But nearly a year later it's nice to know that my money has been well spent! Design: The most striking and obvious feature of this iPod is it's beautiful design. Very appealing to the eye, and with a slick chrome finish, the Touch is a very classy product indeed. However, in my own opinion, the chrome finish can easily get smudged which can become irritating for people (like myself) who like to keep their iPod in pristine condition. But there are solutions to this, such as protective cases, which can be purchased for a relatively decent price. The screen is generously large and with a very crisp finish it makes navigation and video playback a real pleasure. Also, a really nice feature which wasn't present on the previous model...

stevied17 01.10.2009 · Read review
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Olympus E-510 10mp Digital slr Camera

Advantages: Quality, Functions, Easy to use, Price
Disadvantages: have to purchase olympus memory card to use panoramic

...Olympus E-510 10mp digital Slr camera 10MP Price: £350-£550 (Highstreet winner on price - Jessops) This is a great camera for both amateur & professional photographers, for those who like quality & variety at a great price then you can't go wrong with this piece of kit which is not only functional but is very easy to use. You can use this camera straight from the box, it took me about an hour to become familiar with the many functions & settings but pretty easy to take a great shot every time. For all of you ebay fanatics this camera has an auction function which automatically saves the picture for use in such a situation as well as giving you the choice of 3 images to choose from (the same image but with differences to the brightness/contrast, tone etc. this can save you hours on preparing web friendly images. The camera...

dragonsurge 20.05.2008 · Read review
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HP PhotoSmart R967 10MP Digital Camera Review

Advantages: Sooo Many Features
Disadvantages: Battery problems

...I was so scared to get this camera because I thought that I would never get used to it so I hung on to my HP 3.2 MP for such a long time until it died on me. I needed a new and dependable digital camera with more mega pixels. I decided to go with another HP because I was so familiar with my old HP 3.2 that I thought it couldn't be that much different. It is very different and I was nervous using it for the first month but now I know this camera backwards and it really isn't that complicated. It does So many cool things most of which are probably unnecessary. Everyone who sees it wants one and I get asked about it a lot. The screen is huge. This camera has 10 MP which at the time was a huge selling point but I have since learned that no normal person needs that many mega pixels. You will have to get used to taking pictures...

Rachel1919 18.07.2009 · Read review
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Canon IXUS 95 IS: The best amateur digital camera on the market

Advantages: Very high quality pictures for both print and web work.
Disadvantages: The bundled software that comes with it has a very Fisherprice feel about it.

...which comes with the camera - It's awful! Everything is so huge on it and hasn't been designed at all that well. It says that you need to install all of it on your PC/Mac system. But there is a way of bypassing this. On Windows XP, it should come up as an external device and you'll be able to get the photos from the camera that way. If on a MacOS X, just use a programme called 'Image Capture' and get the photos from your camera that way. It comes with many easy to use features: - Selectable megapixel sizes: 10MPG, 6MPG, 4MPG, 2MPG - 3.0x optical zoom (with an image stabiliser for those shakey hands moments) - Different shooting modes: Macro, Portrait, Nighttime, Snow, etc - Photo-effects: Sepia, Custom colour, Black and white - Compression modes: Normal, Fine and Superfine - Video capabilities Other key benefits this camera has are: - Smile...

loopz27 12.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Canon Digital IXUS 95 IS

  iPod Touch 8GB

Advantages: intuitive, stylish, fun, great music player, variety of features, internet function
Disadvantages: fingerprints! no camera, no built in speakers, only available in black currently

...traffic information, which is really useful. The map includes little pins showing the location of all of your contacts based on your address book. The map is easy to use and allows you to zoom in and out using the touch screen as well as to slide around the map to look at different areas. A brilliant feature! Calendar. This is the feature, which I feel transforms the iPod Touch from being far more than just a music player and moving into the realms of being a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). I rarely use the calendar function on my mobile phone or other digital technologies as they are simply too difficult to use and it is easier to use a traditional paper diary! However, the calendar function in the iPod Touch is really intuitive and useful. Due to the size of the screen, it makes it easy to use as an organiser. I have recently...

ilusvm 24.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Apple iPod touch 8 GB

iPod Touch

Advantages: accelerometer - GENIUS! ++ new double click function ++ gorgeous artwork display
Disadvantages: rear panel attracts even the tiniest of marks/dust/grease...

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The iPod Touch weighs a nice 115g (approximately 4.2oz). My iPhone on the other hand weighs in at slightly more at 4.8oz. ~~~~~SCREEN SIZE & RESOLUTION~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This device has a 3.5-inch widescreen display. I find this to be a perfect size for watching videos and playing games. The multi-touch screen has a resolution of 480 x 320. It has 163 pixels per inch which is exactly the same as the iPhone. ~~~~~EXTERIOR DESIGN: REAR PANEL~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The rear panel of the iPod Touch is chrome stainless steel. The shiny silver effect is beautiful and gives a great "touch" (no pun intended!) to this product. It reminds me of some of the previous i...

vcarina88x 29.11.2008 (12.11.2008) · Read review
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Review of Apple iPod touch 32 GB

iTouch!

Advantages: Packed with applications, very handy and easy to use.
Disadvantages: Keyboard is hard to use, no flash player and not very durable without a case.

...such as Dailymotion. This, obviously, is a drawback. Hopefully, Apple will look into sorting this out for future versions. Other than that, the Safari browser is very good. It's fairly quick, like other browsers, it depends on your connection speed as to how fast your pages load. The iTunes store is a great inclusion on the device. I like the idea that you can be sitting out with your friends and if someone mentions a good song or you hear a good song then you can just access your iTunes and purchase the song (provided your in a wi-fi hotspot). It's really good. You can then listen to it using the iPod feature, which is what the device is built around. But the other functions kind of put the iPod section into the shadows. The touch screen is very responsive and so far, using my brothers 8GB version, I haven't encountered any problems...

Timothij 18.08.2008 · Read review
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